Munich bombing: Bayern withdraws Alaba renewal offer

David Alaba seems to have his days numbered at Bayern. After several months without reaching an agreement, for purely financial reasons, to stamp your signature on its renewal, the brand new champion of the Champions announced through its president, Herbert Hainer, that he is withdrawing the offer he made to the Austrian at the time. In this way, and except for an unexpected last minute twist, Alaba will be a free agent at the end of the current season, at which time his relationship with the club in which he took his first steps as a professional expires more than a decade ago and with the one who has won practically everything.

“We present you a very good and fair offer, especially taking into account the times. We told Alaba's agent during our recent meeting that we would like to have a response by the end of October. We need to be able to make plans in such an important position “, were the words of Hainer during an interview with the German media BR. “We didn't hear from him until Saturday. Our sporting director, Hasan (Salihamidzic), got in touch with his agent and the answer was that the offer still did not satisfy them and that we should think about it more. So we decided to withdraw the offer completely. That means there is no longer an offer, “he stressed.

Pini Zahavi, Alaba's representative and in charge of leading the negotiations with Bayern, leaked that he had been completely surprised by Hainer's statements. The agent, according to the sports website Sport1, would not be aware of said decision. Alaba himself, who asks for a significant salary increase that his club is not willing to reach, will appear on Monday at the press conference prior to the Bundesliga leader's Champions League engagement against Red Bull Salzburg at home. It remains to be seen whether the defender, who is closely followed by Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​will offer any kind of statement on the matter. For now, his goodbye from the club of his life seems a reality.